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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com, rjw@sisk.pl,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, clameter@sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pageexec@freemail.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:55:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <481639D2.7040306@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428202130.GF15840@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> And once we accept the static 
> markers, we might as well make them as cheap as possible.

Sure, so long as you take "as cheap as possible" to mean cheap in both 
implementation complexity as well as runtime cost.

I don't have any specific objections to any of the stuff that Mathieu is 
working on, but it does worry me that each time a problem is addressed 
it ends up being an even more subtle piece of code.  I just haven't seen 
enough concrete justification to make me feel comfortable with it all.

It seems to me that a relatively simple implementation which allows the 
desired tracing/marking functionality is the first step.  If that proves 
to cause a significant performance deficit then enabled then we can work 
out how to address it in due course.  But doing it all at once before 
merging anything seems like overkill, particularly when we're talking 
about specifics of gcc's codegen patterns, disassembling code fragments, 
etc.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-28 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 183+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-19 13:22 2.6.25-git1: Solid hang on HP nx6325 (64-bit) Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-20 19:04 ` 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-20 19:14   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-20 21:31   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21  1:18     ` Herbert Xu
2008-04-21  2:08       ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-21  4:59         ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-21  5:47           ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-21 13:00             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 16:06             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 16:24               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-21 15:49         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 17:05           ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-21 17:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 17:43               ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-22  1:03           ` Herbert Xu
2008-04-22 13:36             ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-21 16:12     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-21 16:54       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 17:06         ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-21 17:19           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-21 17:48           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 18:22             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-21 19:38             ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-21 20:39         ` David Miller
2008-04-21 21:18           ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-21 21:58             ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-21 22:26               ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-21 22:54                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-21 23:02                   ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-21 23:11                     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-04-21 23:17                     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-22  0:54                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-22  1:14                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-22  1:30                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-22  9:49                           ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-22  9:53                             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-22 18:35                               ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-04-22 18:48                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-22 20:34                                   ` device_pm_add (was: Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff) Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-22 20:57                                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-22 22:11                                       ` Greg KH
2008-04-22 20:58                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-22 22:12                                       ` Greg KH
2008-04-22 22:48                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-23  0:50                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-23 14:56                                         ` Alan Stern
2008-04-23  8:50                                   ` 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff Zdenek Kabelac
2008-04-23 15:53                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-23 16:58                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-23 17:28                                         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-04-23 17:40                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-23 18:52                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-23 19:05                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-23 19:19                                           ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-23 19:28                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-23 20:27                                             ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-04-24 22:26                                       ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-24 22:41                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25  0:57                                           ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-24 23:45                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25  7:36                                               ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25 14:09                                                 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-25 15:30                                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-25 17:10                                           ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25  9:13                                             ` David Miller
2008-04-25 12:15                                               ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-04-25 12:27                                                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-04-28  0:51                                               ` [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25 15:03                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 15:17                                                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-25 19:36                                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-26  9:59                                                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-26 11:16                                                         ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-26 11:34                                                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-28 20:24                                                         ` VIRTUAL_BUG_ON() Christoph Lameter
2008-05-01 19:22                                                           ` [RFC 1/1] mm: add virt to phys debug Jiri Slaby
2008-05-01 20:18                                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-06 21:54                                                               ` Jiri Slaby
2008-05-07 17:30                                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-13 14:38                                                               ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25 15:19                                                   ` [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 15:26                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 15:32                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 15:33                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 15:48                                                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-25 16:06                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 16:19                                                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-25 16:24                                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 16:33                                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 18:13                                                                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-05  2:36                                                                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-04-25 16:30                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 16:42                                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 17:09                                                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 18:37                                                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 18:47                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 19:19                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 20:04                                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 20:09                                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 20:18                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 20:37                                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 20:41                                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 20:51                                                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 21:12                                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 21:15                                                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 21:47                                                                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 22:07                                                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 22:30                                                                                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 22:36                                                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-28 20:21                                                                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 20:55                                                                                             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-04-28 21:01                                                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-28 22:42                                                                                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-28 20:43                                                                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-28 21:02                                                                                             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-04 15:03                                                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-05-04 16:18                                                                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 22:38                                                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 22:04                                                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 23:00                                                                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 23:13                                                                                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-25 23:34                                                                                       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-04-26  6:21                                                                                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-26 11:56                                                                                           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-04-26 23:38                                                                                             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-27  1:00                                                                                               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-04-26  2:12                                                                                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-06-05 17:44                                                                                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-04-26  6:50                                                                                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-28  0:49                                                                                   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-04-25 21:02                                                                             ` David Miller
2008-04-25 21:11                                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 16:22                                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 16:37                                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 16:43                                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 16:45                                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 16:51                                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 17:02                                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 17:13                                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 17:26                                                                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-25 17:29                                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 17:53                                                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 18:04                                                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 18:09                                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 18:19                                                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 18:56                                                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 18:13                                                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 16:52                                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 16:56                                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-25 15:50                                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 15:57                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-25 18:53                                                             ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-25 16:11                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25 15:54                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 15:59                                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-25 16:11                                                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-25 15:27                                                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-25 20:18                                                   ` David Miller
2008-04-25  1:35                                         ` 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff David Miller
2008-04-25  1:48                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25  1:57                                             ` David Miller
2008-04-25  7:41                                               ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25  7:45                                                 ` David Miller
2008-04-25  8:02                                                   ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25  8:18                                                   ` pci commands resume order [Was: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff] Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25 17:11                                                     ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-25 10:53                                                   ` 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff Craig Schlenter
2008-04-25  7:42                                           ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25  7:49                                             ` David Miller
2008-04-25  7:56                                               ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25  7:58                                                 ` David Miller
2008-04-25  8:00                                                   ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-25 15:47                                                     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-22 21:46                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-22 19:09                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-22  1:15                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-22  1:25                     ` [ProbableSpam]Re: " Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-21 21:19           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 21:54             ` David Miller
2008-04-21 13:17   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 13:35     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-21 18:56       ` Ingo Molnar

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